The left keeps portraying Charlie Kirk as a racist. Anyone who has actually watched his debates or listened to his podcasts knows that he is not.
After scouring articles and social media posts for the evidence used to label him a racist, it seems to center on a handful of statements taken out of context which, do not represent racism but rather uncomfortable truths that run against the liberal narrative.
Alleged or documented remarks attributed to Charlie Kirk include the “brain processing power” comment regarding specific Black women, the statement that “prowling Blacks go around for fun to target white people in urban America,” and the accusation that he is antisemitic despite his frequent and explicit support for Israel.
This last charge is especially ironic, since liberals now hate Israel and are openly antisemitic.
On July 13, 2023, Charlie Kirk said one could, “without being called racist,” say that four prominent Black women, Sheila Jackson Lee, Joy Reid, Michelle Obama, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, were affirmative-action picks. He then showed a clip of Jackson Lee stating before Congress that she was an affirmative-action hire.
He added that they did not have “the brain processing power to be taken seriously” and should yield opportunities to someone “more deserving.”
The statement was attacked as racist, but Kirk was not making a claim about all Black people.
He was criticizing these four individuals, at least one of whom explicitly said she was an affirmative-action hire.
This is yet another example of how conservatives want to judge people as individuals and liberals demand that every interaction be based on skin color, where even arguing with a single person is characterized as a global attack on an entire demographic.
This criticism connects to Kirk’s broader statements on affirmative action.
He previously stated that because of affirmative action, when he sees a Black pilot, he has to consider if the person was hired based on diversity rather than merit.
He made the same observation about an incompetent customer service representative. In both instances, his statement is accurate and consistent with the definition of affirmative action.
Kirk did not say Blacks cannot be good pilots or good customer service representatives.
He accurately pointed out that, by definition, diversity initiatives and affirmative action result in people being hired and promoted based on skin color rather than merit.
Kirk has been attacked for his remark that there are “prowling Blacks” attacking white people for fun. This is not racist. Attacks such as the so-called “knockout game” and other random acts of Black-on-white violence are well documented not only in FBI crime statistics but also in social media posts where perpetrators often upload videos of their assaults. He did not say all Black people do this.
He did not say most Black people do this. He stated that this situation exists, and it does.
Key FBI statistics from 2019 support Kirk’s claim that such attacks exist.
According to the FBI’s Expanded Homicide Data Table 6, in single victim/single offender homicides where race was known, there were 566 white victims killed by Black offenders compared to 246 Black victims killed by white offenders.
This means that homicides with white victims and Black offenders were more than 2.3 times more common than the reverse (566 vs. 246).
Additional FBI data shows that in 2019, Black individuals accounted for 51.3% of murder arrests despite making up only 26.6% of all arrestees and about 13% of the U.S. population (FBI Table 43).
Earlier, the National Crime Victimization Survey in 2002 found that robberies involving white victims and Black offenders were over twelve times more common than the opposite pattern.
Beyond the official data, media reports and academic studies document the phenomenon popularly known as the “knockout game,” in which attackers randomly assault strangers and often post the videos online.
NPR reported that perpetrators have uploaded recordings to YouTube and Vine, while CBS News documented at least four fatal cases in cities including Syracuse, St. Louis, Chicago.
Finally, the alleged antisemitic comment comes from Charlie Kirk’s appearance on the Patrick Bet-David podcast.
In that podcast, Kirk described his trip to Israel and said he found it strange that it took six hours for the IDF to respond to the October 7 attack.
The New York Times claimed it was nine hours, which would make it even worse.
He noted that Hamas was “livestreaming the killing of Jews” and questioned whether there had been a stand-down order inside the IDF.
He pointed out that it takes only 45 minutes to fly to the Gaza border and joked that “the whole country is the IDF,” which he admitted was a slight exaggeration. His point was that everyone under the age of 41 is either in the reserves or active duty.
While Israel’s standing army consists of about 169,500 active-duty personnel, the number of available reservists is around 465,000.
Given these figures, it is reasonable to ask why it took so long to respond on October 7 and why so many died. During this discussion, Kirk reiterated that he is very pro-Israel. There is nothing antisemitic about this clip.
There are tens of thousands of hours of Charlie Kirk videos available online, and to date, no one has been able to find a single instance where he said something racist.
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